Youre watching the weekly here on R T International bringing you the days news along with the biggest stories from the week just gone. We start and valorous where another huge protest against president Alexander Lukashenko is underway you can see live pictures just behind me from a central minsk where thousands upon thousands have turned out people have been taking to the streets for more than 2 weeks now accusing look shango of rigging the election in his favor it has gone up reports from its. People behind me on the Independence Square of the the russian capital minsk they have been chanting slogans like leaves calling on the president of some example of the shanku to go long live belarus right now and theyre clapping and my cameraman is just going to zoom in to show you the sky. Of the protests right now we have a really good Vantage Point so you can see for yourself people are flocking i can see them flocking from all sides now the opposition has been promoting this action as a really really key one in fact the Coordination Committee this is what the what they call the people who have decided to have those Antigovernment Movement they are in fact expected to address the crowd today and lay out the plan as to what theyre going to be doing that now again a lot of chants a lot of slogans being yelled out and the police so far have been announcing from the loudspeakers above the square saying that well people should disperse this gathering is unlawful because because it has been authorized by the authorities now speaking about the police they have not yet intervened but over there in the distance you can see Police Vehicles and well Police Vehicles and crowds crowd to control machines and they again they are so far standing by they are here they have not intervened well yet we do not know whether or not they will but so far from what ive been gathering speaking with Law Enforcement and the army they are saying that well if people want to just come out and just make their voices heard theres no there wont be a problem but one broken one broken window will change everything when you more from the word we cannot stand by and just watch as the protests which are taking place at sacred sites use the flank of the nazis used in organizing the massacre of by the russians russians jews and other nationalities we cannot allow this to happen thats why from this day on we take them under our protection we will if you disturb the public order in these places you would have to deal not with the police but with the army. Also we do know that the government has called on its supporters to stay home because we have been traveling all around the country to cover some of the action organized by the progovernment people by the progovernment crowds weve seen them with phil with filmed them several 1000 people and each and every rally that we personally i personally witnessed so all these people they have been called on to stay home this has been done in order to avoid any potential confrontation and you know brawls between some of the more passionate protest as we will be standing by here all throughout the day to bring you the latest. The country has been left deeply divided by the about the week that followed it was dominated by opposition protests on monday supporters of the president began holding counter rallies which have grown the 2 sides can be distinguished by the colors they support. If the boy dark my heart is bleeding and i cant believe this is happening in belmar. Of us equities and i love i love the. Thanks it is opposition we are strong it is them who made us united we are the people weve been living in fear for a week weve been crying all these calls for change i was buying vegetables at the grocery i told the seller i was going to attend a meeting she said you look at i think their thirties are wrong the Election Results are a complete lie its very sad the more the authorities deny ever the things the worse it is for the state i feel bad for the country and for the people i believe that the peoples voices that we hear now justify what people decided in the election they have been heard now they will have to listen every day to whats going on here. On saturday 1000 showed up for a poll look at a rally in the border city of growth now the president himself delivered an emotional speech where he really gets reiterated claims that the political turmoil gripping the country is being stirred up by the west r. T. Was able to speak term right after his appearance on stage. Well i knew this would happen i was afraid of skirmishes during that critical period they were preparing for that they were going to work for i came out i was afraid that these people would have suffered that is why we took a break look at that there is a sea of people outside i did not expect to see that here on the western border where being bullied are being pressured to attack russia they see as a springboard and we have to wipe it out. Meanwhile a number of Foreign Countries have challenge look at those legitimacy as president rejecting the result of the election you have confirmed its drawing up sanctions against fellow russian officials who are suspected of Election Fraud and little violence against protesters dont know hawkins delves into why the former soviet republic has drawn so much international attention. Just a fortnight ago many western viewers may have barely heard of belarus that will change the thousands poured over the streets in protest over the disputed president ial election. Its the countrys geography which between its big east the neighbor and europe sees the interests of International Players intertwine and clash. Officially the e. U. Is dismissed the elections as neither free nor fair. As persona nongrata and already begun drawing up new sanctions lists citing Human Rights Violations in the wake of Police Violence in custody we start number were told e. U. Why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for Human Rights Violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether there will be further restrictive measures depends on the further actions of the bully russian authorities. Condemnation was perhaps predictable but theres no shared view of what comes next the Baltic States and poland have been the loudest critics of location while hungary has stopped short of outright that l. C. A. Sion others still have sought a balancing act the e. U. Cant turn a blind eye neither can it risk having it be stabilized neighbor state on their doorstep and confrontations with moscow a longtime ally of minsk are getting tiresome. So its no surprise putin has been busy on the phone holding talks with merkel mark kroll and the European Council chief we all see russia as an actor that can help influence or regulate the situation a better roofs is russias closest historical ally a vital economic and military partner and a buffer zone against nato over recent years have seen their relationship strained to say the least nevertheless moscow would surely rather put up with a look of shame goes over to us that the west and risk chaos on its borders the russian side emphasized that any attempt at external interference in the internal affairs of belarus which could lead to a further escalation of the crisis would be an acceptable. For many years but a ruse some. And exactly been a top priority for the United States in 2006 they slap sanctions on minsk for you guessed it democratic elections and in 2008 the countrys expelled each others ambassadors but earlier this year things began to change for the 1st time since 1904 minutes got a visit from the u. S. Secretary of state. Generously offered to meet all of energy needs and extended a helping hand get out of 6 wanted to help build its own sovereign country this leaves washington with. Should they carry on befriending looking who may be interested or put their bets on the opposition and its the uncertainty in minsk one thing is clear washington has its own interest in belarus the possibility of another u. S. Friendly state on russias border could be a game changer and as protests grow in a country suddenly thrown into the International Limelight and with multiple interests at stake all actors involved hold their breath as they play out their next move. Russian opposition figure id like see it not only has been admitted to a berlin hospital for emergency medical treatment he was airlifted on saturday from the siberian city of arms and only has been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday are just bitter over has latest took a lot of wrangling between doctors in the russian city of. The family but Alexei Navalny is here in germany here rived on saturday in a special medical plane to be chartered by his supporters he landed here in berlin and arrived at the hospital flanked by a column of blue flashing Lights Police motorcycles and other vehicles accompanying the ambulance that he was in to shot at a hospital hes receiving treatment and undergoing extensive testing at the hospital to try and determine what is behind. Illness that resulted in him being in a coma since thursday early in police have also put out a statement saying that they are here in increased numbers due to mr vanney being in this hospital and we arent expecting any updates really from the hospital until maybe monday morning. Lex in the familys wife is here so were looking to see if theres any further statements from the family now russian doctors had objected to him moving initially they said that alexina vanny was too ill to be able to make that journey however they relented at the request of the family we are not in favor of him being taken anywhere from this hospital but considering the requests of his family he will help organize the transportation alexina down the took on well on thursday on a flight from siberia back to moscow he was headed to be in some clear distress while on that flight the plane made an Emergency Landing in the city of on skin he was rushed off to hospital by paramedics that has been claimed that he was poisoned with some of his team suggesting there was a poison was put into his t. Doctors say that they ran a talk screening on him while he was in the hospital in that came back negative that they were treating him under a different diagnosis if you will or the team of doctors concluded that since we did not find any toxic materials in his blood he had suffered emitted by disruption with a reduced glucose levels during the drop in pressure while the plane was taking off. This isnt the 1st claim of poisoning against alexina van the last year he was hospitalized from prison his team at the time said that he had been poisoned it later turned out that he suffered a severe allergic reaction claims that there has been a poisoning in the kremlin of the hind that is being strongly denied by denethor the press corps is flooding me of putins press secretary he said that the russian government to put no blocks in the way of the legs in the valley travelling he had to germany that any delays in transportation had been due to the concerns raised by the doctors he said that he also wish missed in the valley a speedy recovery of the European Union have said they want a full investigation into what happened to Alexei Navalny in what seems to be a case thats demanding a lot of answers and really raising certainly a lot more questions than we have ounces at the moment a lot of eyes focused on the hospital just behind me in a case that is becoming increasingly politicized. As soon as the news. Broke western media rushed to speculate on possible kremlin and wildman that will cases were cited when the russian government was accused of poisoning people. Vonnie is not the 1st to fall victim to poisoning blame for which is often a laid at the door of the kremlin former spy surrogates cripple and his daughter yulia suffered a nerve agent attack and russian defector Alexander Litvinenko died of radiation poisoning activist Glen Amir Karim was poisoned twice and survived the tourists for allegedly using radioactive nerve agents to target Double Agents defectors and others who fall afoul of the kremlin of course his support the us will not be convinced they will believe that this is a poisoning. I am at a was at who could be interested in such a poison and it became a kind of duty its a its a cliche for the westen media the western news agency is to blame rashi mediately after something happens basically there are many questions on it and the western media is not seeking answers to these questions instead is just so much easier to blame russia personally i want to speculate if it could be done by russian government agents without which inseparable with fortunes approval is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because its much more dangerous to really investigate and to see probably the role of all the extra us both in the story all of us and all in the story all. Still hadnt soldiers overthrew the president of mali this week after months of anticorruption protests now they say they plan to hold in the election from our story after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. Welcome back to the weekly germany france the u. K. Russia and china have all rejected a u. S. Request to reimpose sanctions on iran the socalled snapback sanctions can be triggered as part of the nuclear deal but only by signatures to the pact artist and picks up the story. So at this point weve got the United States essentially demanding that the United Nations reimpose its crippling sanctions Economic Warfare against the Islamic Republic of iran this is mike pompei o laying out the demand just a few minutes ago i delivered letters to both the un secretary general to terrorism to the president of the Security Council notified them that the United States is initiating the restoration of virtually all u. N. Sanctions on iran lifted under u. N. Security Council Resolution 2231 did i say it will never allow the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes tanks missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons now essentially the United States is hoping to invoke the snapback mechanism that was part of the j c p o a conclusion of the Iran Nuclear Negotiations the Iran Nuclear Deal now the snapback mechanism was put into the nuclear deal so that if iran did not fulfill the agreement and did not fulfill its obligations broke the agreement that there would be an immediate snap back and all the un sanctions would immediately be reimposed on iran so now the United States is trying to invoke the snapback mechanism however it has virtually no support in the International Community when it comes to this demand that weve got all the other cosigners of the deal the United Kingdom germany france china russia all staying that basically the United States doesnt have the right to invoke the snapback mechanism because the United States pulled out of the deal not iran this has been the International Reaction to the United States call and this was my studio and i was aware different concerns at reckless acts by the United States could trigger a serious crisis from the Security Council our american colleagues do not seem to care about this cardinal contraries to resist and i stress once again that the u. S. Prices are low for that many will use in the United States has withdrawn. The comprehensive agreement on the Iranian Nuclear issue and hes not qualified to call for a rapid resumption of sanctions by the Security Council as i have repeatedly recalled the u. S. Unilaterally seized participation in the j. C. B. Away by president ial memorandum on the 8th of may 28th and has subsequently not participated in any j c p o a related activities you can know that for be considered to be a participant state for the purposes of possible sanctions not by foreseen by the resolution the United States hold out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in may of 28 scene and at this point weve got the trumpet ministration saying that they are open to read negotiating a new deal that would restrict irans activities more harshly now at this point people are reacting to the recent effort by the United States to extend the arms embargo against the Islamic Republic of iran which was roundly defeated by the International Community the u. N. Security council the 15 member body that leads the un the only other country to support t